ORNAMENTAL FRUITED TREES AND SHRUBS 89 



Provided they be given sufficient room to develop, 

 no shrubs are more beautiful in fruit than the Bush 

 Honeysuckles of which there is a great variety. 

 The best with red fruits hails from the Old World 

 and none is more handsome than Lonicera Morrowii, 

 native of northern Japan. This is a fairly large 

 growing shrub with spreading branches and bears in 

 enormous quantities bright crimson berries which 

 ripen in early July and remain on the branches until 

 winter. The common Tatarian Honeysuckle (L. 

 tataricd), which ranges from southern Russia to 

 central Asia and of which there are many varieties, 

 still remains one of the best. Another old and valu- 

 able species is L. Ruprechtiana native of northeast 

 ^continental Asia. Others are L. Xylosteum with wine- 

 colored fruits, native of Europe, Asia Minor, and 

 western Siberia and L. chrysantha, with lustrous crim- 

 son fruits, from northeastern Asia. These five 

 species have long been in cultivation in Europe and 

 this country and have given rise to numerous hybrids 

 more beautiful even than themselves. Among the 

 best of these with red fruits are L. muscauiensis and L. 

 muendeniensis. The former originated in a nursery at 

 Muskau in Silesia from seeds received from the 

 Petrograd Botanic Gardens and is considered to be a 

 hybrid between L. Ruprechtiana and L. Morrowii. It 



